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bragr
·قبل 6 أيام·discuss
I think you have a particularly poor read on American politics.

>they push everything further to the left than in Europe. (Which is also in my opinion why they are losing elections)

No, the democratic electoral base is consistently and loudly complaining that after the primaries, most democrat candidates become moderates in the general election (even actively courting Republicans) and do not follow through on the primary election promises when elected. This has resulted in major democratic voter apathy and low turnout.

>Simply look at how many weeks abortion is allowed in blue state and compare with most European countries.

This is true, but you have to contextualize it to America, where people have poor or no sex ed, no access to socialized medicine, no time off from work for medical appointments, likely no public transport to the appointments, and very possibly now needing to travel out of state.

>Economically yes, they are more conservative but even that is now changing as well (see: New York and AOC).

That's very much TBD. First, NYC is not very representative of America as a whole. Second, while there has been a small wave of recent democratic socialist victories that has been well covered in the news, it is too soon to say that's a long term trend or just a Trump induced aberration. Mandani is making a splash currently, but he's just a mayor. I like AOC's politics, but she's too much of an outsider to have any real influence in Congress. She probably has more influence on social media than she does in Congress. I'm not aware of any legislation introduced by her actually becoming law. Maybe if this trend continues, there will be enough to form an influential caucus in Congress. However, as of now, no one is really listening to the extreme left in Congress and we've never had an extremely liberal president during my lifetime.

If you disagree, I'd be happy to have you point out some counter examples from party members with actual power (presidents, governors, state legislature leadership, senators, house leadership, committee chair persons or ranking members), but they all tend to be moderate.
bragr
·قبل 20 يومًا·discuss
I do suspect they'll settle but I doubt it will result in a new contract. They've already made significant investments migrating off VMWare and none of those will snap back with a new contract. Tesco was also cut off from updates and support, and so had to purchase 3rd party support, so they have real damages.
bragr
·قبل 23 يومًا·discuss
Not to be downer, but recent studies have not corroborated those effects.

>One of the most celebrated claims about Yellowstone’s wolves is facing a major challenge. Scientists say the study behind the famous trophic cascade story relied on flawed methods that overstated the ecological impact of wolf recovery. Their reanalysis found no evidence for a dramatic, park-wide surge in willow growth. Instead, the effects appear smaller and vary from place to place.

https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2026/06/260613215510.h...
bragr
·قبل 23 يومًا·discuss
Uruk-hai are GMO
bragr
·الشهر الماضي·discuss
This lacks perspective of the position of OP and people like him. For them, stringing together multiple full and part time minimum wage jobs is the norm. Not having health insurance is the norm. Extreme commutes, often not by car, is the norm. Are these kinds of consulting jobs great? No, probably not. Better compensation and hours than the alternative? Almost certainly.

Consider how he and his wife were surviving before he got back into tech. That's the norm for a lot of people.
bragr
·الشهر الماضي·discuss
Thieves typically burn off the insulation so it's not likely to be easily reused.
bragr
·الشهر الماضي·discuss
How are the learning resources for Blender VSE? I've tried several open source editors (openshot: not fit for any serious purpose, shotcut: would be great if not bugged out) and ended up on Resolve for the combination of being free for my purposes and good community resources. I've looked at Blender for 3D before and found the good resources tend to be out of date. Is that still an issue?

edit: I may need to give the OpenShot 3.x a chance. The OpenShot release history [1] makes the claim that they have addressed many of my complaints

[1] https://www.openshot.org/blog/
bragr
·الشهر الماضي·discuss
Were you Chris.sherlock/Aussie Article Writer on Wikipedia? Sounds like pot calling the kettle black re: toxic. You had an interaction ban against her FFS.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Administrators%27_no...
bragr
·الشهر الماضي·discuss
There is some nuance, but in real life the SWAT teams will just crash a bearcat through the wall and fly a cheap drone through the hole to scope out the situation if need be. And as for searching, they don't need a scan to know how to upend everything in a house. People aren't robots, once they're inside, they have their own situational awareness.

The real privacy nightmare with this data to me is marketers mining it for what you have or don't have in your home and hyper targeting you that you need to buy a new coffee table or whatever.
bragr
·الشهر الماضي·discuss
>There is plenty of money to be made selling home layouts to police.

The police basically already have this in the form of building records. Unless you live in a really old building or you've made unapproved modifications, they've got an accurate layout if they care to look.
bragr
·قبل شهرين·discuss
To be fair, some cookie banners do automatically opt you out if you send DNT, but is not the standard for sure.
bragr
·قبل شهرين·discuss
The original blog post this references is a better read: https://www.adventuresinoss.com/aws-four-years/
bragr
·قبل شهرين·discuss
If I recall, proprietary clients usually shipped with their own bootstrap server. I think it may have even contributed to the legal cases, but it's been a long time.
bragr
·قبل شهرين·discuss
Eh, basically all facts in this story are disputed by all sides. Aside from general gist that there was some meeting that didn't go well.
bragr
·قبل شهرين·discuss
Basically they were just trying to track down weird noises on the recording. They also went and recorded audio on a similar UPS MD-11 to try to identify the source. According to the NTSB:

"This high pitch ringing sound, primarily noted at approximately 6.35 kHz, occurred at 17:13:05.5 EST, shortly after the aircraft rotated for takeoff, and continued with varying amplitude throughout the remainder of the recording. Additionally, a tone at about 2.1 kHz was present along with the ringing that could not be identified."
bragr
·قبل شهرين·discuss
Those units appear to be US Army PE-95 generators, not welders.

https://www.purplewave.com/auction/210310/item/IG9246/US_Arm...
bragr
·قبل شهرين·discuss
Yeah looks like Micheal Douglas was using that name professionally about decade before Michael Keaton started his career so union rules would require an alternate name.
bragr
·قبل شهرين·discuss
Kessler syndrome presumably?
bragr
·قبل شهرين·discuss
Sure but they are still a finite resource. Once you've transferred those rights to a super tall luxury condo building, you can't readily transform that into affordable middle class and lower income housing.
bragr
·قبل شهرين·discuss
>but it's not really good for your career

Can you define that with more specificity? I find that academics have a major blind spot where good career means "the path I took" to the exclusion of all other paths.

>Speaking as someone who has graduated over a dozen PhD students in computer science

And your CV says another 6 dropped out. What was good for their careers?